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GEN. H R. JAcKsoM,s PAMPHLET.
1t Contains the Thurman jackson Con-

GEN. H. R. JACKSON'S PAMPHLET.
1t Contains the Thurman jackson Con-
troversy and an Interesting Preface.
Gen. Henry R. jackson has published a
pamphlet, which contains his Macon speech,
ex-senator Humans attack upon him and
other documents The following is the
preface TO it:
The purpose of this pamphlet is TO enable
me to distribute correct copies Of the fol-
lowing papers:
/. My remarks to the Confederate Vete-
rams at Macon, Oct. 26.
2. My interview with the editor of the
Atlanta Constitution, touching those re-
/ marks published on the morning of Oct %
3. The attack made upon me by ex-
Senator Thurman, at Columbus, o., on the
evening of Nov. q.
4. Ny note evoked by that attack, ad-
dressed to the Atlanta Constitution, Nov.
| ). Judge Thurman's communication OF
Nov. 10 to the Associated Press.
! 6. My open letter to him Of the same
date.
1t is proper to state that my letter was
not written several days" before its pub
| LEGATION, as was enormously telegraphed by
the Associated Press. Not a word of it was
|
| cantation of his sanderous charges had sat
isfed me that he was not the man | had
taken MIN to be, and that no retraction
worthy of a generous, or even conSclcn-
| cious nature would ever come from him.
That | did not err in this conclusion has
now been made manifest by his failure to
| take any notice whatever of my letter,
which, as appears from q registry return
receipt of the United States post office, was
placed in his hands on Nov. IA. This, in
connection with the closing SEN
fences of his communication to the
Associated Press. establishes the
fact that, with the fullest light before
him, he adheres, in cold blood, to the ''bitter"
calumnies he uttered against me 'in his
brief and off hand address, not even re-
pudiating or qualifying the vulgar words III
which he clothed them. He has thus re-
vealed the notifying truth that man
may rise to reputation in the Federal Senate
who, by chance exposure of his real ma
ture must forfeit the respect of the decent
and the just.
For what just man, who reads my letter
TO him, will hold me to be mot only an
enemy of the Democratic party, but of the
whole country" because of anything said
in my Macon speech! What Intelligent
man, North or South, can question for
moment that l uttered the convictions of
every Southern who has not pleaded, in his
own heart, for himself or his ancestry,
Guilty of treason and murderw
Where is the human imagina-
ton fertile enough to conceive Of
an occasion which shall imperatively
call for the utterance of those convictions
assuming that they are ever to be uttered
if the circumstances surrounding me, and
the audience before me, at Macon, did not
create it, The man who is false to his con-
victions when they involve the truth of
history, and, with it, the honor of his State,
his family and himself, even though it be by
simple suppression, when occasion gives to
silence all the significance of open denial
without its boldness, must feel himself
sink upon the scale of conscious being.
What is true of the individual must
needs be true of the social aggregation. The
history of Georgia may be nothing to the
world but to her people it is every thing.
1t involves their honorl The sad fate of a
people dead to their honor is but common
place in the annals of the world and might
be forcibly illustrated from the condition,
| to-day, of certain peoples in Europe. Sink
ing the past and future in the present;
yielding to the lead of the venal time-server,
who eclipseS the sun with the acorn of self
held close to the eye, they become, unawares,
the condemned and oppressed of mankind.
That the world should be full of clashing
convictions cannot degrade conviction it
IL.
emerge triumphant from the clash. Nor
does the possession, or the utterance, when
occasion demands it, of strong convictions
preclude hearty respect for the counter
convictions of others. Where is the South
ern man. of active thought and forceful
emotion, who will venture to say that, had
he been born in the heart of New England, he
would not have been an Abolitionist of
the sternest sect-holding that any COM
Oanf racOUniziOpr nrOpprtV in human flesh
is X crime against God, annulling itselfs
Where is the man, North or South, OBJ
servant and thoughtful, who will question
the proposition, that, had the Puritans
landed on the banks of James river, and the
Cavalier and the Huguenot on Plymouth
Rock, the problem of African slavery would
have worked itself out to the same practical
results! Are we not all unconsciously to
ourselves, the creatures of circumstances The
workings of circumstance and the convic-
| ton of men are the property and agencies
of invisible power. He that is false to the
latter, or callous to the charity which must
ever spring from proper appreciat ion of
| the effects of the former, cannot be fully
alive to his moral or his social duty. What
union between men or States can be per-
manent, or desirable, which does not rest
upon the basis of mutual confidence! And
| of what elements can such basis be success
| fully built, if not of honest convictions free
| ly spoken, and patient charity for honest
error born of circumstance? | rejoice in the
belief that African slavery. the only cause
| for serious disturbance, removed forever,
such a union has been restored-nay more
than restored to the great American
sisterhood of States. The armies which
may rally hereafter under "the old flag" to
| defend it from aggression, come when or
where it may, will contain no hearts more
loyal or devoted than now beat in the